Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

I have a media release here from 2011 issued by the now Leader of the Opposition and the now Deputy Leader of the Opposition, who were then the Assistant Treasurer and the Minister for Human Services. The release is headed 'Welfare debt recovery process to be automated'. The release goes on to brag about the compliance efforts that were undertaken by the Gillard government in 2011. The now Deputy Leader of the Opposition goes on to say:

… if people fail to come to an arrangement to settle their debts, the Government has a responsibility to taxpayers to recover that money.

Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting—

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